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Originally Posted by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka
This meme is from "What Privileges Do You Have?", based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
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Don't know how you all feel about memes in here, but I found this to be among the more interesting that I've seen.
Father went to college?
<b>Yes.</b>
Father finished college?
<b>Yes.</b>
Mother went to college?
<b>Yes.</b>
Mother finished college?
<b>Yes.</b>
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor?
<b>Yes.</b>
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers?
<b>Yes.</b>
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home?
<b>Yes.</b>
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home?
<b>Possibly, I've never counted.</b>
Were read children's books by a parent?
<b>Yes.</b>
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18?
<b>Yes.</b>
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18?
<b>Yes.</b>
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively?
<b>Depends what I'm wearing, and women can be argued either way, but as far as young, white professionals are concerned, yes.</b>
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18?
<b>No.</b>
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs?
<b>Yes.</b>
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs?
<b>Yes.</b>
Went to a private high school?
<b>No, but it was small—and elitist—enough to feel like a private high school.</b>
Went to summer camp?
<b>Yes.</b>
Had a private tutor before you turned 18?
<b>If you count weekend art lessons, yes.</b>
Family vacations involved staying at hotels?
<b>Yes.</b>
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18?
<b>Had a number of hand-me-downs from my sister, but for the most part, yes.</b>
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them?
<b>No, but they gave my sister their minivan when her second child was born.</b>
There was original art in your house when you were a child?
<b>My father paints copies of Chagalls and guests have remarked on more than one occasion at being impressed that we own them, thinking they were originals. But yes, there is original art there as well.</b>
You and your family lived in a single-family house?
<b>Yes.</b>
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home?
<b>I believe so.</b>
You had your own room as a child?
<b>Yes.</b>
You had a phone in your room before you turned 18?
<b>No. I won a phone for free once but my parents didn't believe I should have it hooked up to a line in my bedroom.</b>
Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course?
<b>No, I didn't want to.</b>
Had your own TV in your room in high school?
<b>No.</b>
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college?
<b>No.</b>
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16?
<b>Yes.</b>
Went on a cruise with your family?
<b>No, my parents didn't believe in cruises but we did do a lot of traveling.</b>
Went on more than one cruise with your family?
<b>No.</b>
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up?
<b>Yes.</b>
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family?
<b>Very much so.</b>